[Tilesathome] Fwd: Using OSM on the iPhone

[spaetz]

On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 03:56:36PM +0200, Gernot wrote:

> > Sounds like a terrible idea to me. That service is not designed to have
> > high loads or be used in an automated manner. Use the tiles directly.
> 
> Hm, that's a pity. Because downloading several of the big tiles for
> making the image on the device is not really an option due to
> bandwidth issues...

I fail to see how downloading the few tiles yourself and cropping a few pixel away makes it much more expensive than fetching one big image. It should basically be the same. In any case, MapOf is supposed for people who want to have one nice picture for their web page, it's not the mobile app map displaying source.

I repeat: MapOf is quite expensive on the server, compared to fetching tiles.

spaetz